Falmouth Harbour can offer a rewarding and varied career. Good sea legs are not required for all our roles.
The government’s Kickstart Scheme funds the direct creation of high quality jobs for young people at the highest risk of long-term unemployment. It will give young people the chance to build their confidence and skills in the workplace, and to gain experience that will improve their chances of going on to find long-term, sustainable work.
The Kickstart Scheme is open to young people who are:
Falmouth Harbour is offering a Kickstart placement for a well organised Customer Care Assistant to support the Falmouth Haven leisure services team with maintaining a welcoming and customer focussed reception and handling customer queries, developing merchandise sales, maintaining waiting lists, market research, social media, processing payments and other administration tasks in our busy reception and offices.
If you are interested in this vacancy please contact your DWP Work Coach.
We are not currently recruiting.
We do offer work experience placements for secondary school children interested in developing a career in the marine sector within an area relevant to our activities. We have limited resources so to ensure you get the most out of your work experience placement we select candidates based on their areas interest and what we think we can offer in this respect.
In order to learn more about you to ensure that we can offer you a suitable placement we ask for a letter / email from you along with your CV applying for the work experience placement. The sort of things we would like to see addressed are as follows:
Our contact details are info@falmouthharbour.co.uk or you can write to us at: Harbour Master, Falmouth Harbour Commissioners, 44 Arwenack Street, Falmouth. TR11 3JQ
The purpose of the above exercise is to understand where your interests lie and ensure that we can offer you a fulfilling work experience placement. We also hope the process of applying for the work placement provides experience of applying for future positions to aid in your future aspirations.
After receiving your CV and letter / email we will review them and , if we think we can provide you with an appropriate placement, we will invite you for a short interview.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions that you have. We very much look forward to hearing from you.
